Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

Mathematical recreations and essays

by: Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925

Publication date: 1920

Topics: Mathematical recreations, Geometry, Astrology, Space and time, Matter, Magic squares

Publisher: London, Macmillan

Collection: americana

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: English

Arithmetical recreations.--Geometrical recreations.--Mechanical recreations.--Chess-board recreations.--Magic squares.--Bees and their cells.--Unicursal problems.--Kirkman's school-girls problem.--Miscellaneous problems.--Calculating prodigies.--Arithmetical calculating machines.--Three classical geometrical problems.--The parallel postulate.--Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.--Mersenne's numbers.--String figures.--Astrology.--Cryptographs and ciphers.--Hyperspace.--Time and its measurement.--Matter and ether theories

1